If your BATES line came from the Old Dominion, you may
be want to join the organization, The Bates Family of Old Virginia (BFOOV).
Membership benefits include the opportunity to borrow books from the society's
lending library. The annual dues of $20 include a subscription to the newsletter
THE BATES BOOSTER edited by Cindy Dambach. The issue for June 2007
(volume 38, number 2) focuses on a research report on Samuel BATES (1752 - 1803)
and Millicent VAUGHAN, who were married by 4 September 1777, and their children.

Checks, payable to The Bates Family
of Old Virginia, may be sent to the editor, Cindy Dambach, 11798 E. Atlantic
Place, Aurora, CO 80014. The Bates society has a website at
http://www.BFOOV.ORG.

This week we conclude the list in
the Norwich Journal, Norwich, NY, 8 April 1847 (New Series, Vol. IX, no.
51), p. 3, c. 6. (Because the print is faded in a few places, some letters or
names are questionable.)